Tattered flags flying,
runs the Black Pearl
Fiction-book pirates
blue water whorls
Red stripes, bandanas
three cornered hats
Death rides the tides,
gold to extract
Caribbean dreams
Brigantine, schooner
Spiced-rum laced lookouts
point the pursuers
With cutlass and grape shot
and manifest greed
Six pounders and chain shot
will soon do the deed
Wrote Daniel DeFoe
and Fennimore Cooper
They told the tales
of Spanish Main troopers
And Rafael Sabatini
and Sir Walter Scott
And Robert Louis Stevenson
who tied them in knots
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